Marketing director, Doug Lombardi, denies that Valve soon with own gamehardware on the market. So will the gameontwikkelaar no hardware to show at the various trade fairs of this year. Works Valve on Steams Big Picture Mode.
“We are preparing Steams Big Picture Mode for and for that, we build some test systems,” says Doug Lombardi marketing director at Valve. By which he means the rumours want to weaken the company’s own hardware to the market, which must compete with the existing consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. As published earlier this week, photos of a system that Valve employee Greg Coomer at the end of 2011 built would have and that a prototype would be the ‘SteamBox’, which Valve on the market. The pc that Coomer put together, however, is no SteamBox prototype, according to Lombardi. “Greg is one of the people working on Big Picture Mode and the pc which he has set is meant to be that software to test. We always pcs together to our software test, we did that already at the time of Half-Life 1.” With Big Picture Mode will Valve the software of the own gameportal Steam to make them suitable for display on a tv and control it via a game controller.
Except with Big Picture Mode experiments Valve according to Lombardi with the recording of biometric data of players. “That is where we work, but we are still not the extent that we own the hardware to produce,” says Lombardi. He would not really deny that Valve is a private gaming platform works. Lombardi just wanted to admit that this year there will be no announcement comes from our own hardware at trade shows like the Game Developers Conference and E3. He does not want to exclude that Valve ever own the hardware and produce.
